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dear men

i am writing =ou both because i am attaching a still not-quite-complete response to Pete= Richerson, a gene-culture co-evolutionist—without the genes =div>

i do so because four lines down i tell the "Gruter=tes"—Gordon Getty's echo chamber—that i have adde= you two to the list

so here is your chance to sa= "no way" and i will delete that from the message and likewise n=t ask Gruter's assistant to add your names to the list

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having said that, i find Gordon's missives much less burdenso=e than those from EDGE and certainly without the egomaniacal nonsense that=infects John Brockman—the key is to get the brightest minds in a r=om and have them tell each other what they think is most important =94or some such nonsense

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neither David nor i can t=ink of a single scientific advance achieved that way—most of what =e do is simply concentrated sustained thought directed toward the foundati=ns of a problem

i doubt Jeffrey has made a huge a=ount of money via the EDGE program

unless you say=otherwise, i will shortly send you the key Getty missives in which he asse=ts, i believe correctly, that Trump is an archetypal narcissistic psychopa=h—or whatever the precise term is—and that he must be oppo=ed with full force on that basis

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meanwhile, David has heard plenty about you Jeffrey, a f=nancial/mathematical mind of exceptional quality and you should know =AOthat David is one of the very top evolutionary geneticists still breathi=g and my teacher on every detail large and small

=n haste and all best

bob

i think you might be missing the benefit of the psycopath to=the group. he is the defender easily sacrificed. b=t strkes fear in the heart of the other tribes. they are neede= as best warriors

i think this is a good point Jeffrey but i do think they a=e rarely sacrificed—certainly not Saddam or the sadistic Assads or=Donald

have you heard that Genghis Khan—for all=i know a gentle nomadic warrior—left 5 million Y chromosomes in hi= wake, surviving today?

45% of marriages in Iraq =re with first cousins of the doubly paternal kind—father's bro=her's child and this has been said to lead to easy fracturing of the c=untry which only a powerful dictator like Saddam could contain <=r> of course "we" destroyed the country and it lies in=ruins now—one end to the other

leave tomo=row for Ft Lauderdale and then Sunday on to California

as always, if you have an hour or so i will be there

all best